BEIJING — China rolled out on Monday an annual child care subsidy of 3,600 yuan (about $500) until age 3, as authorities look to spur a flagging birth rate with fewer young people choosing to have ...

The country launched a new three-child policy to address its declining birth rate, but couples remain resistant to the idea of having more children.

Long seen in the West as a byword for the Chinese Communist Party’s heavy-handedness, the one-child policy became a trope for Chinese authoritarianism. While the policy was officially scrapped in 2015 ...

China’s one-child policy was not only cruel; it was a failure. Decades of shackling women to beds and forcing them to undergo abortions certainly reduced the birth rate. But it had been falling anyway ...

Beijing has rolled out a series of pro-natalist policies, from offering cash handouts to improving childcare services, extending paternity and maternity leave.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Innovation futurist, keynote speaker and author, based in California. In 1979, China’s leaders implemented the now-infamous “One ...

China said that by the end of this year all tertiary level hospitals must offer epidural anesthesia during childbirth, a move it said would help promote a “friendly childbearing environment” for women ...

In Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, the journalist profiles twins separated as toddlers by China’s one-child policy and examines America’s demand for international adoptees. How brutally was China’s one ...

China on Dec. 19 upheld the death sentence for a child trafficker whose crimes shocked the nation and traumatized dozens of victims. Yu Huaying, 60, separated at least 17 children from their parents ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — China's population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world's second most populous nation, ...